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Louie Gohmert: There are an awful lot of people hurting across America now. We take up a few suspension bills here that only the…

On the recordDecember 6, 2011
There are an awful lot of people hurting across America now. We take up a few suspension bills here that only the Congress could deal with, so it's something we have to do, we're proud to do, important to those organizations in two States. It's important to them; it's important to us. We have people on the other side of the aisle who come forward and try to make it into a jobs debate when it would seem that some of the best debate would be if all of us, en masse, walked down to the other end of the hall of this building and began to seek to debate the Senate--the Senate leadership, that is--and Democratic Party on why they are so intent on stopping legislation that could put people back to work. There are many besides the President, in addition to the President, who say this is a do-nothing Congress; and because the Senate does so very little, they give credence to that argument. One need only look to all the bills we have been passing here in the House that could help the economy, would help the economy, would put people back to work, would bring down dramatically the cost of energy, which would bring down inflation and the stagnation and stagflation that's been put in place by this President and, actually, the 2 years prior to this President when our Democratic friends across the aisle controlled Congress and jumped up spending like we could not have anticipated.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Dec 6, 2011

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